Linux-Misc Digest #752, Volume #26 Mon, 8 Jan 01 14:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: latest XFree and TNT. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
power manage question (J. Roe)
Re: latest XFree and TNT. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: latest XFree and TNT. ("Gerard H. Pille")
Re: Partition overlapped (* Tong *)
Re: problems compiling 2.4.0 kernel ("Gerard H. Pille")
Re: what news reader do you use? (Steve)
Re: lltostr() in Linux ? ("Dave Korn")
Re: multisession disks
bash ^d (* Tong *)
glibc v2.2 update? (John Thompson)
Re: question: deleting/undeleting disk partitions (Dave Brown)
help with compiling kernel 2.4 (Hung Ngoc Lai)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: latest XFree and TNT.
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:10:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:40:03 -0500, "Meat-->Plow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:02:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L
>Olczyk)wrote:
>
>>I heard that there were troubles with the TNT drivers for
>>XFree 3.* primarily because nvidia was not releasing information.
>
>Bullshit, my TNT works great using 3.3.6
>
>>They did release a library which was used to build one set of drivers,
>>but that was a long time ago.
>>Now that XFree has been upgraded ( to XFree 4.0 as I understand )
>>is there still driver support for TNT in there?
>>I would like to upgrade, but haven't yet because I fear I may not have
>>the drivers.
>>TIA.
>
>Why in the fuck don't you vist xfree86.org and look up the info on
>your own,, moron.
>
>http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status22.html#22
Yep. Definitely an internet idiot.
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: power manage question
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:06:07 GMT
Hello,
I'm having a power managment/save question that I am hoping can get
answered.
I was running RH6.2 a while back and after a period of inactivity my
computer would power down nicely. Moniter goes in power save, hard
drive would spin down, fans would spin down and go into a power save
mode. Then, when I would want to go back an work I would simply move
the mouse or press a key on the keyboard to wake everything up to where
I had left it.
Now I'm running SuSE 7.0 and during a period of inactivity I'm seeing a
differnt type of power down. I can't tell if the computer is powering
down (cause the fans are still running , and the hard drive is still
spinning) but the moniter into power save. However when I go to work on
the computer again, I can't. No mouse movement or keystroke will power
it up. SO I then need to reboot, and it's a bad reboot because I get a
message saying there was an improper shutdown.
I am wondering how I can go back to the way I had it before. Was that a
program that was running via the OS? I've not done anything to the
BIOS. How can I have my computer "power down" in a way such that I can
go back and work on it again later?
thanks!
--
J. Roe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...the more i learn, the less i know about before
the less i know, the more i want to look around...
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: latest XFree and TNT.
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:27:32 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Thaddeus L Olczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:40:03 -0500, "Meat-->Plow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:02:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L
>>Olczyk)wrote:
>>
>>>I heard that there were troubles with the TNT drivers for
>>>XFree 3.* primarily because nvidia was not releasing information.
>>
>>Bullshit, my TNT works great using 3.3.6
>>
>>>They did release a library which was used to build one set of drivers,
>>>but that was a long time ago.
>>>Now that XFree has been upgraded ( to XFree 4.0 as I understand )
>>>is there still driver support for TNT in there?
>>>I would like to upgrade, but haven't yet because I fear I may not have
>>>the drivers.
>>>TIA.
>>
>>Why in the fuck don't you vist xfree86.org and look up the info on
>>your own,, moron.
>>
>>http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status22.html#22
> Yep. Definitely an internet idiot.
Please ignore him. There were troubles with nVidia and XFree86 3.*, but
nothing that prevented XFree86 from releasing drivers (basically, nVidia
came in at the last minute before an XFree86 release, and told the XFree
developers that they couldn't release all the source code they had).
And yes, 4.0 has very good support for the TNT cards... nVidia has also
released 3D drivers for most of their cards under XFree86 4.0.*
Adam
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From: "Gerard H. Pille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: latest XFree and TNT.
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:38:09 +0100
Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote:
>
> I heard that there were troubles with the TNT drivers for
> XFree 3.* primarily because nvidia was not releasing information.
> They did release a library which was used to build one set of drivers,
> but that was a long time ago.
> Now that XFree has been upgraded ( to XFree 4.0 as I understand )
> is there still driver support for TNT in there?
> I would like to upgrade, but haven't yet because I fear I may not have
> the drivers.
> TIA.
What a pity some people don't stick to Windoze, I'm referring to the
previous replies you got.
I'm running fine with XFree86 4.0.1 & TNT2 M64 & NVidia's driver and
lib. I believe I needed a small patch to compile it on my 2.4.0 kernel
though, but that's it. Eg. Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) has a
very good walkthrough for setting up this config.
Good luck,
Gerard
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Date: 08 Jan 2001 13:30:13 -0400
* Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thanks to everybody who tried to answer my question. It seems to be
a problem with no fix reason/solution.
FYI, I ended up redo the whole extended partition with cfisk, trying
to avoid any potential problem. The result is:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 65 319 2048287+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 320 1057 5927985 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 1058 2491 11518605 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1058 2030 7815591 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2031 2491 3702951 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Lesson learned from above:
- PM (partition-magic) may produce a partition that is invalid for
Linux
- The problem was only related with partition 5 & 6, not 3 & 4.
- Related tools are PM (win), fdisk, cfdisk, gnu-parted
cfdisk might be the best solution.
> I used the partition-magic to partition my HD. Then installed RH6.2
> in it. When I installed the RH, RH complained that my partitions are
> overlapped. But I didn't have any problems up till now, when I was
> trying to install the vmware. Vmware also complained that my
> partitions are overlapped and what's worse, refused to make use of
> the win98 partition.
>
> So I installed the gnu-parted and tried to resize and move around my
> partitions a bit:
>
> - - - -
> (parted) rm 6
> (parted) mkpart logical ext2 8292 16346
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0-19547.2 megabytes
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.0 502.0 primary ext2
> 2 502.0 2502.3 primary ext2
> 3 2502.3 8291.4 primary FAT boot
> 4 8291.4 19540.0 extended
> 6 8291.4 16347.4 logical
> 5 16347.4 19540.0 logical FAT boot
> - - - -
>
> I thought the "partitions overlapped" really means that I shouldn't
> have those .xx (decimal) starting and ending points. So, as you can
> see, I readjusted the 6th to "8292 16346". But what parted gave me
> was still "8291.4 16347.4".
>
> So I'm totally lost here. Please somebody help me out. What is the
> "partitions overlapped" really mean? and how can I get out of this
> trouble? (hopefully w/o losing my previous info in the partition).
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
- All free contribution & collection & music from the heavens
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From: "Gerard H. Pille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems compiling 2.4.0 kernel
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:46:02 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've compilied the 2.4.0 kernel, but I can't get it to recognize my
> ethernet adapters. I tried compiling them (it's an Etherlink III and a
> Linksys DEC Tulip) as modules and direclty into the kernel, but whenever
> the system boots up I get a failed on initializing ETH0 and EHT1, and
> when I try to ifconfig them, it says unknown device.
>
> i'm running linux mandrake 7.1
>
> does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> thanks.
> todd
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
compile the drivers as modules (I don't know what name they'll have),
then with modinfo -p you can ask their parameters.
You may need to put some parameters in /etc/modules.conf (or
/etc/conf.modules) for these modules.
Have you defined aliases in modules.conf for these adaptors?
alias eth0 ethIII_module
option irq=...
alias eth1 linksys_dec_tulip_module
option this=... that=...
It would be helpful if you had a look in /var/log/messages to see the
exact errors
Are these plug and play devices? PCI ? Have a look in /proc/pci for
valuable information.
etc, etc
Gerard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: what news reader do you use?
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:20:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Brad Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>| In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve
>| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| :* Brad Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>| :>| In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve
>| :>| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| :>| :
>| :>| :I'd recommend slrn to anyone who wants a powerful reader without all the
>| :>| :gui frills/overhead. As long as one doesn't need the binary ng's then it
>| :>| :will be probably the best newsreader one has ever used - IMHO. ;)
>| :>|
>| :>| Whadya mean, as long as I don't need the binary ng's? slrn handles
>| :>| those just fine, making it one of the best I've ever used.
>| :
>| :Right, but not as good as some others, IOW 'out of the box' it doesn
>| :t do binaries, correct?
>|
>| Depends on what you mean by "do", I suppose. 'Out of the box', it can
>| download, combine, decode, and save any kind of binary post I've ever
>| run across, with about 4 keystrokes (:<ENTER>yy). Obviously slrn does
>| not display the binaries itself, but then I'm not looking for an mp3/
>| mpeg/avi/jpeg-viewer to be builtin to my newsreader, whether it's GUI
>| or not.
Hmm - I was under the impression that it had to be patched to
combine/decode binaries. Oh well learn something new every day. <g>
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
Powered by Caldera Open Linux
11:18am up 22 days, 15:02, 8 users, load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.09
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From: "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,gnu.gcc.help,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lltostr() in Linux ?
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:05:19 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Maurizio Loreti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>man sprintf
>
>man snprintf
man vsnprintf
DaveK
-it took all my self-restraint not to add a.f.k-m.n to the ng's line...
--
They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Copernicus. They laughed at
Columbus. But remember, they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
>
>--
>http://www.spinics.net/linux
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multisession disks
Date: 8 Jan 2001 10:04:42 -0800
"lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <3a596a4c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
>
>>
>> I am having trouble making multisession CDs. I made the first session
>> with: mkisofs -J -R -o try.iso first/=stuff/ then cdrecord -multi
>> dev=0,0,0 try.iso then the second mkisofs -J -R -o t.iso -C `cdrecord
>> dev=0,0,0 -msinfo` \
>> -M /dev/scd0 second/=stuff2
>> then mount t.iso -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt and I get: mount: wrong fs
>> type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>> or too many mounted file systems
>>
>> mounting the first image works just fine....burning the second in
>> results in only data from the first being visible but -msinfo returns
>> values like a second session is there.....I don't get it....help. I
>> tried using 0,0,0 instead of /dev/scd0 and removing the
>> joliet....neither worked.
>>
>> my drive IS capable of multi-session r/w because it works fine with the
>> EasyCD program in win98....I have been using this thing for a long time,
>> but this is the first attempt at a multisession disk in linux.
>
>if you haven't
>see the README.multi file that comes with cdrecord
>should be in
Yes, I read that file. AFAICT what it told me is what I did.
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From: * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: bash ^d
Date: 08 Jan 2001 14:04:37 -0400
Hi,
In Linux slackware, when I try to use ^d to logout from bash, I got
a warning saying something like "type logout instead". How can I
disable this feature?
Somebody said it is build into bash executable but I copy a good
version from my RH and it behave insane in slackware. So I think
there must be some (hidden) configuration that I don't know of.
Thanks
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://members.xoom.com/suntong001/
- All free contribution & collection & music from the heavens
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: glibc v2.2 update?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:40:29 -0600
As I have been encountering more and more programs that want
glibc v2.2 I have been considering updating my present glibc
v2.13 installation to v2.2. After my experience with the
glibc2.0 => glibc2.1 debacle I am reluctant to simply jump into
this. I'm running RH v6.1 with kernel 2.2.18 and not sure I want
RH 7.0 yet. Has anybody here made the jump to glibc2.2 without
installing a new distribution and survived to tell the tale? Was
it as much a PITA as glibc2.0 => glibc2.1? Inquiring readers
want to know...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: alt.solaris.x86,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: question: deleting/undeleting disk partitions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Jan 2001 11:53:41 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vladimir Annenkov wrote:
>Can anyone recommend/ point to some source where I can get info on
>reading/editing disk partition tables?
>
>partitions. Rather than backing up and restoring very large
>partitions, I've saw a post (via deja) about a workaround which
>involves effectively hiding surrounding partitions by temporarily
>deleting them. Later one can undelete them by restoring some entries
>in the partition table.
>
I've done this using Linux fdisk, but only on systems which had
Windows and Linux, so I can't speak to what Solaris might do.
The Linux fdisk program (as of a couple of years ago anyway) was
non-destructive, as least as far as Linux goes. (I had a disk
that had 20 partitions on it --don't ask-- and RedHat and SuSe
installers would crash when they saw that many. I had to delete
them, do the install (on a partition =< 16), then put them back
with Linux fdisk. The filesystems on those "high" partitions
were unaffected.
I've also "re-typed" partitions to hide them from Windows and
Linux installers. Windows looks for the signature byte on booting
and applies letters to the drives. RedHat looks for Linux
signatures when you do an update (although now, I believe it
lists the ones it finds and asks which is the partition to update).
Linux fdisk has a number of signatures you can put on a partition
which are ignored by Windows, etc.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with compiling kernel 2.4
Date: 8 Jan 2001 18:49:36 GMT
Hi everyone,
I am running RedHat Linux version 6.1 with kernel 2.2.18. I would like to
upgrade the kernel to version 2.4. I download linux-2.4.0.tar.gz to /usr/src
directory the following steps:
1) gunzip linux-2.4.0.tar.gz
2) tar -xvpf linux-2.4.0.tar
3) cd /usr/src/linux
4) make mrproper
5) make menuconfig (in this step, I uncheck the Cardbus support (pcmcia) because
I am running linux on a destop [dell 300MHz])
6) make dep
7) make clean
8) make bzImage
9) make modules
10)make modules_install
in step 10, I get this error:
upgrade the kernel to version 2.4. I download linux-2.4.0.tar.gz to /usr/src
directory the following steps:
1) gunzip linux-2.4.0.tar.gz
2) tar -xvpf linux-2.4.0.tar
3) cd /usr/src/linux
4) make mrproper
5) make menuconfig (in this step, I uncheck the Cardbus support (pcmcia) because
I am running linux on a destop [dell 300MHz])
6) make dep
7) make clean
8) make bzImage
9) make modules
10)make modules_install
in step 10, I get this error:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
mkdir -p pcmcia; \
find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.0; fi
/sbin/depmod: invalid option -- F
Usage: depmod [-e -s -v ] -a [FORCED_KERNEL_VER]
depmod [-e -s -v ] MODULE_1.o MODULE_2.o ...
Create module-dependency information for modprobe.
-a, --all visit all modules
-d, --debug run in debug mode
-e output unresolved symbols
-i ignore symbol versions
-m, --system-map <file> use the symbols in <file>
-s, --system-log use the system log for error reporting
--help display this help and exit
-v, --verbose run in verbose mode
-V, --version output version information and exit
make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1
*******
At this point, I copy the bzImage and System.map to /boot, modify the
/etc/lilo.conf, and run the /sbin/lilo command and reboot the box. When
the system is restarted, it hangs. I could not get passed the line
"decompressing the linux kernel".
Going back to the error message, it has to do with the pcmcia modules which
I don't need. How do I get around this problem? When I recompile the box
with kernel 2.2.18, I didn't see the pcmcia directory under
/lib/modules/2.2.18; however, I do see the pcmcia directory
/lib/modules/2.4.0/pcmcia under kernel 2.4. Can anyone help me with this
problem? Right now, I am running kernel 2.2.18 but I really would like
to use kernel 2.4. I am a newbie here so please be gentle with me.
Many Thanks....
David
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